2011/11/20 Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:22:38PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: >> 2011/11/20 Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>: >> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: >> >> This other patch converts sx to a similar interface which cleans up vm_map.c: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/sxfileline.patch >> >> >> >> What do you think about it? >> > >> > This one only changes the KBI ? Note that _sx suffix is not reserved. >> >> In which sense? >> If you want to keep the shim support for KLD (thus the hard path) you >> will always need to keep an hard function and thus you still need a >> macro acting as a gate between the 'hard function' (or KLD version, if >> you prefer) and the fast case, that is where the "_" suffix came from. > > As I see, right now kernel exports e.g. _sx_try_slock() for the hard path. > After the patch, it will export sx_try_slock_() for the same purpose. > The old modules, which call _sx_try_slock(), cannot be loaded into > the patched kernel. Am I reading the patch wrong ? We shouldn't be concerned about it for -CURRENT, when MFCing this patch I'll just make: #define sx_try_slock_ _sx_try_slock rather than renaming the function. Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. EinsteinReceived on Sun Nov 20 2011 - 19:24:02 UTC
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